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Decarbonising the energy sector requires urgent action on a global scale. While energy production and consumption patterns are changing fast, the shift to renewable sources needs to happen faster to reduce emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change.

Climate policy drives shift to renewable energy

Decarbonising the energy sector requires urgent action on a global scale. While energy production and consumption patterns are changing fast, the shift to renewable sources needs to happen faster to reduce emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change.

Bioenergy accounts for nearly three-quarters of renewable energy use in 2017, and the use of modern bioenergy technologies could quadruple by the middle of the century. Clean, sustainable, modern bioenergy is a key component in the energy mix to meet global climate goals.

Doubling bioenergy use essential for global sustainability

Bioenergy accounts for nearly three-quarters of renewable energy use in 2017, and the use of modern bioenergy technologies could quadruple by the middle of the century. Clean, sustainable, modern bioenergy is a key component in the energy mix to meet global climate goals.

Yet transforming the global energy system in time to meet the challenge of climate change depends on early, concerted and consistent policy action to keep the rise in average temperatures below the crucial threshold of 2 degrees Celsius.

Early action vital to keep temperature rise below 2oC

Yet transforming the global energy system in time to meet the challenge of climate change depends on early, concerted and consistent policy action to keep the rise in average temperatures below the crucial threshold of 2 degrees Celsius.

The world’s energy transformation calls for accelerated innovation, both to produce technological breakthroughs and to devise new operating practices aimed at limiting the rise in global temperatures. The need for innovation extends beyond electricity to end uses in transport, buildings, industry and all aspects of energy use.

Energy innovation needed beyond electric power

The world’s energy transformation calls for accelerated innovation, both to produce technological breakthroughs and to devise new operating practices aimed at limiting the rise in global temperatures. The need for innovation extends beyond electricity to end uses in transport, buildings, industry and all aspects of energy use.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), at the request of the German government, have identified the key changes needed to decarbonise the world’s energy system and limit the global temperature rise.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), at the request of the German government, have identified the key changes needed to decarbonise the world’s energy system and limit the global temperature rise.

Renewable power could cover up to four-fifths of global electricity supply by 2050 – drastically reducing carbon emissions and helping to mitigate climate change. However, strategies are needed to fully integrate the variable renewables, solar and wind energy.

Power sector crucial for global decarbonisation

Renewable power could cover up to four-fifths of global electricity supply by 2050 – drastically reducing carbon emissions and helping to mitigate climate change. However, strategies are needed to fully integrate the variable renewables, solar and wind energy.

Renewable energy deployment and energy efficiency improvements work in synergy. Pursued together, they result in higher shares of renewables, greater reductions in energy intensity, and faster decarbonisation.

Synergies boost renewables and energy efficiency

Renewable energy deployment and energy efficiency improvements work in synergy. Pursued together, they result in higher shares of renewables, greater reductions in energy intensity, and faster decarbonisation.

Renewable energy costs have fallen significantly and rapidly since 2007, based on dramatic improvements in the cost-competitiveness of renewable-based power generation technologies. With this increasingly favourable cost equation, the world’s shift to a sustainable energy future based on renewables makes sense in purely economic terms.

Transforming energy makes economic sense

Renewable energy costs have fallen significantly and rapidly since 2007, based on dramatic improvements in the cost-competitiveness of renewable-based power generation technologies. With this increasingly favourable cost equation, the world’s shift to a sustainable energy future based on renewables makes sense in purely economic terms.